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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 16, 1941.

MUTT AND JEFF ·

YOU DEVELOP AND PRINT ALL YOUR OWN PHOTOGRAPHS?

YEP! MRS. SCHMALZ IS COMING OVER THIS AFTERNOON! SHE WANTS ME TO TAKE PICTURE'S OF HER BABY!

WATCH THE

SIX DIFFERENT POSES! HOW WONDERFUL!

BIRDIE, BABY!

5-30

DA

I CAN HARDLY WAIT TO SEE THEM FINISHED!

I'LL DO THEM RIGHT AWAY!

MY BABY SWALLOWED THE ROLL OF FILM! OH, WHAT'LL I DO?

Page

By BUD FISHER

HERE, POUR DOWN THE DEVELOPER AND LET'S SEE

WHAT DEVELOPS!

DANCES TEACH DOCK CHANNEL

FLYER

BOYS TO BE 'GENTS' HONOURED

?" The band “MAY I HAVE the pleasure struck up a tango and a little dockland boy bowed to a little dockland girl.

Young Ernie they used to call him "The Tough" down his way, but now he's "the perfect little gent"-was one of 250 children evacuated from East Ham to a Surrey school camp, taking his partner for the next dance, writes a correspondent.

Ballroom dancing

has solved has bern "Ballroom dancing

problems. introduced to these kiddies, aged many

The children and it has longer shy, no

9 to 15%, by their headmaster, | are Mr. William Skipsey. He is known taught the boys to be gallant."

to the children as Skip.

"It is teaching the boys not to be rough with the girls and rationalises the children's altitude towards sex," he told me as we watched the young couples.

One

MYSTERY OF MAN'S LEG IN A BROOK

Police in England

are anxious

The first Free French airman to be decorated

by the King was present- ed with the British Em-

pire Medal recently for escaping from Occupied France in a 'plane he sec-

assembled in retly

wood.

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He landed safely in England, having risked being shot down by

fighters. patrolling German

by Hurricanes and Spitfires от by anti-aircraft fire.

The medal was presented by Air-Marshal L. A. Pattinson, Air Officer Cominanding-in-Chief. to Command, Fying Training Corporal Maurice Halna Du Fre- tay. who is aged 20.

His single-engined 'plane was If they don't like dances

assembled near a small village. they don't have to come.

he camou- During the day or two of the little boys are hav-to obtain information that may aged it with branches and leaves. ing a game of billiards instead. solve the mystery of the discovery When night fell he worked by the

Th's dance is an important of the left leg of a man in a brook light of a torch to complete it. affair to them," he said. Cana at Shute, East Devon.

He had to wait for a tail wind dian soldiers had come with their The man had been well-deve¡ to help him across the Channel, of petrol band for the evening.

loped over 25, and about 51t. 4in.as the limited amount "So the girls have been busy in height.

The was able to obtain was barely their preparing

dresses and On the leg was a blue-r bbed sufcient: With only a few per- pressing the boys' trousers for sock and the boot was size sixsonal effects he took off, landing them. All the

are or six and a half, with a rubber an hour and a half later. children

heel. most particular in their person.

OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD

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20 What for?,

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VERTICAL

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Lion

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Air-Marshal Pattinson said Du Fretay gave a fine example of those qualities of enterprise and determination which bind togeth- er the Allies in their struggle.

Du Fretay is now under train- ing as a pilot at an R.A.F. flying training school.

'PLANE HAD NO "PROPS"

of

Fighting off the attacks five Messerschmitt fighters over Holland, an R.A.F. bomber set course for home with oil pouring from the port engine.

The engine stopped and the propeller fell off.

Out over the North Sea, on one engine, flew the bomber. The English coast was crossed --and then the second airscrew, also damaged, dropped away. But the pilot brought his ma- chine down to a safe landing in 'a field,

attacked oil storage He had tanks near Rotterdam in. day- light.

A shell burst through the nose of the aircraft, and then the five Messerschmitt 109s. attacked.

For twenty minutes the fight want on. Qur gunner was 'wounded and the mechanism of his gun carringe put out of action, but he fought on, turn. ́ing hiò guns with the hand con..

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One by one the Messerschmitts broke off the fight.

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